Example sentences of "[vb -s] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the psychologism this encourages may help to mute feminist debate . |
| 2 | What a single mother represents may seem touchingly attractive : not having to cook another adult 's meals , or wash his clothes ; being able to go to bed when you want ; being able to go to sleep when you want . |
| 3 | The old ‘ establishment ’ to which Tom Arnold refers may have gone , but a new one is in its place and he is a representative of it . |
| 4 | The ultimate answers about why stigma persists may lie in an examination of why people fear differences , fear the future , fear the unknown , and therefore stigmatize that which is different and unknown . |
| 5 | Obviously a client will not discuss intimate affairs with someone whom he believes to know nothing of such matters , or whom he thinks may condemn or be shocked by his problems . |
| 6 | His godparents came from his mother 's side of the family , her brother Errol and Florence Court Treatt , who Grace thinks may have been Major Court Treatt 's mother ; also a friend , a government official named John Keith , after whom John was named . |
| 7 | His mother had been married once before in a stunning white dress , which Karl thinks may have been made by Doucet — one of the great early twentieth-century designers . |
| 8 | So this is what the great glass eye thinks may have been leaked to our enemies — an inquiry into the nature of happiness . |
| 9 | yeah , she goes let's have some French dressing . |
| 10 | As a result , it will seek an alternative pungent odour when roaming free out on a walk , and horse droppings and cow pats may prove irresistible . |
| 11 | Criminal libel corresponds to no " pressing social need " of the sort which the European Court insists should justify restraints on free expression , and its continuing existence is difficult to reconcile with the decision in Lingens v Austria ( see p69 ) . |
| 12 | DAVE McAULEY has been given the go-ahead by a British Boxing Board doctor to resume full training after arm and foot injuries for his IBF flyweight title defence against Dodie Penalosa , of the Philippines , which the IBF insists must take place by 7 December . |
| 13 | Our lifestyles dictate that a weekly shop at the local supermarket will suffice , and therefore supplies must last until the next excursion . |
| 14 | We believe that the macro-economic major help to which my hon. Friend refers should come through the International Monetary Fund and should be the result of a reform process with which the IMF is associated . |
| 15 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 16 | The research was also used to highlight the misguided emphasis placed by the Government on local loyalties , believing that the people a council represents should identify with it . |
| 17 | Calvert reckons Kamtronics ' centrally controlled design together with the broad scope of design and manufacturing expertise it offers should prove very attractive to customers . |
| 18 | The problem is that the law makes its intelligent decision as to what it thinks should happen which may accord with your wishes . |
| 19 | A notice may have been served with regard to an intention by a local authority compulsorily to purchase the property or part of it and again notices may have been received by the seller where the property is subject to occupation by a tenant . |
| 20 | In a situation such as this much of what this Report contains may seem to be irrelevant . |
| 21 | Abuse of possession which the defendant already has may take many forms , such as sale accompanied by delivery of the plaintiff 's goods or their documents of title to another , pawning them , or otherwise disposing of them . |
| 22 | He must seek the advice of the wisest money-brokers and buy a pension scheme if he be self-employed ; he must see to it that he does not over-extend himself on the mortgage front ; he must run a motor car that does n't drink petrol like tapwater and wo n't break him every time it needs a service from a franchised dealer ; above all , he must abstain from vicious pleasures — or if he needs must indulge , then he must do so only in moderation . |
| 23 | In February it was unanimously agreed that Sir Denys should continue as boss until he reached the retirement age of 62 , making him the longest-serving chairman since Sir Paul Chambers , who ran — and dominated — the company from 1960 to 1968 . |
| 24 | It may be that in New South Wales , Category 3 , which carries the seven-year penalty , has been constructed too broadly and that some conduct which it covers should have been placed within the more serious categories . |
| 25 | Wendy had more intelligence than her pleasant calm looks might have led the casual observer to suspect . |
| 26 | Still , Posi is the best that creds could buy . |
| 27 | It appears that the mother would be eligible for financial assistance in returning with the children to Australia , whereas the father and the lady with whom he now lives would have to fund their own travel arrangements to England and to that extent the father would be disadvantaged . |
| 28 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
| 29 | It is widely rumoured that Pillsbury and Ruth Carter Stevenson , an influential trustee of the National Gallery , did not get on , and also that several National Gallery staffers were , in the words of one curator , ‘ absolutely terrified ’ at the prospect of Pillsbury 's appointment , the general feeling being that ‘ heads would roll ’ in a grand sweep . |
| 30 | The reset switch is a little large for my money , but , being well labelled , it is unlikely that accidental resets would dog its user . |